What are learning disorders and difficulties?

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

Oscar Wilde.

What are learning disorders and difficulties?

What are learning disorders?

According to González and Martín del Buey (1991), the notion of learning difficulties is complex because it alludes to very different fields of behavior, which can vary from perceptive disorders to specific problems in learning to read, write or calculate, because they have been analyzed from different areas of knowledge (medicine, neurology, psychology, therapeutic pedagogy, etc.) 

A learning disorder is directly related to neuronal alterations. Therefore, these directly affect the ability to learn to write, read, calculate, memorize and even understand any subject within the teaching-learning process. Next we present you a scheme that simplifies it.

What causes learning disabilities?

The factors that influence the progression and cause of a learning disorder are the following:

• Family history and genetics. There is a genetic history and diseases transmitted by the parents' genes that could affect them to a lesser or greater extent.

• Prenatal and neonatal risks All the complicities that may occur during delivery or even during pregnancy will also affect the baby in addition to the risks for substances that may be consumed by the mother.

• Psychological trauma. There are traumas in the early stages of a child's life that can cause brain and cognitive damage over time, which will clearly affect learning development.

• Physical trauma. Also all the possible damages that the child can receive physically will be able to affect mainly if they are made in the first years of life in delicate zones like the cerebral cortex. Head injuries or infections of the nervous system can also help develop some kind of deficiency in the child's development.

• Environmental exposure.In addition, if the environment in which the child develops is toxic or surrounded by industrial toxins from factories, or other airborne conditions, the child may have difficulty later in life.

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